IN RE TAYLER F.

No. 18280.

995 A.2d 611 (2010)

296 Conn. 524

In re TAYLER F. et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided June 8, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon D. Golas, Manchester, for the appellant (respondent mother).

Benjamin Zivyon, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, were Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan T. Pearlman, assistant attorney general, for the appellee (petitioner).

Sheila A. Huddleston, with whom was John H. Beers, Hartford, for the minor children.

ROGERS, C.J., and NORCOTT, KATZ, PALMER, VERTEFEUILLE and ZARELLA, Js.


KATZ, J.

The underlying neglect proceeding in the present case requires us to consider whether, and under what circumstances, a child witness may be deemed unavailable for purposes of admitting the child's outof-court statements under the residual exception to the hearsay rule when it is claimed that testifying would be psychologically harmful to the child. The respondent mother1 appeals, upon our grant of certification, from the judgment...

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